Final voter list to be published on Mar 2: EC

The country's final voter list 2025 will be published on March 2 next, the Election Commission said on Monday.

Election Commissioner Brigadier General (retd) Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah disclosed this while talking to reporters after the first meeting of the newly formed Election Commission, reports UNB.

Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin presided over the meeting held at Nirbachan Bhaban in the city's Agargaon area.

Sanaullah said the data of 1.7 million eligible people has so far been collected, who will be registered as new voters on January 1, 2025.

Of them, the data of some 1.3 million proposed voters was collected in 2022 and the remaining 400,000 people came to the election offices on different occasions to be voters, he said.

The commissioner said the EC will go for the door-to-door data collection to update the country's voter lists after the celebration of the national voter day on March 2 next.

During the door-to-door campaign, the data of the already dropout voters and others who would be eligible to be voters in 2026 will be collected, he said.

Then these proposed voters -- whose data would be collected during the programme -- will be incorporated as new voters in the 2026 electoral rolls, he added.

The commissioner said it will take some six months to complete the door-to-door data collection campaign.

He said EC additional secretary KM Ali Newaz said the draft of the updated voter list is published on January 2 every year. Then the EC receives complaints over the draft list and finalises the electoral rolls disposing of the complaints.

Three other election commissioners -- Md Anwarul Islam Sarker, Abdur Rahmanel Masud and Begum Tahmida Ahmad - were present at the meeting.